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Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis
Contributor(s): Perl, Jed (Author)

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 ISBN: 0465055206     ISBN-13: 9780465055203
Publisher: Basic Books
OUR PRICE: $40.95  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2000
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Annotation: An art critic for "The New Republic" offers a provocative look at the contemporary art scene in a brilliant collection of essays. Illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
- Art | Art & Politics
Dewey: 701.18
LCCN: 99049794
Lexile Measure: 1380(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.46" W x 9.55" L (1.50 lbs) 368 pages
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/21/2000 pg. 79
School Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 80
New York Times 05/21/2000 pg. 28
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 162
 
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Publisher Description:
As art critic for The New Republic, Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establishment with an ability to write about art in the context of our larger culture. In this collection of essays, including two written especially for this book, he delivers a brilliant mixture of first-rate art criticism and politically informed insight into the true workings of the American art world. Perl offers incisive analysis into the marketing mentality that dominates today's museums, the poverty of academic criticism, and the changing expectations of the gallery-going public. He re-evaluates the old masters, and turns an avid, unprejudiced eye on the works of his contemporaries. He laments the collapse of a gallery culture that once allowed artists to develop slowly, and argues for a radical reassessment of the way art is presented to -- and is viewed by -- the public.
 
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